To think the MN covid sleuthing is pathetic

[GoldfishParade]

OP: I was at a busy restaurant last night and the waiter was rude to me
Posters: Where are you that allows busy restaurants? You clearly arent respecting lockdown

1. Not everyone lives in the UK
2. Why do you care?

Restraunts were way way way down on the list of places people were traced back to anyway...

Time for people to start concentrating on what they re doing and stop worrying about everyone else

Yanbu. Especially as not everywhere in the UK is in lockdown.

Yanbu, its lame.

Especially when in Scotland, you can still go to any non essential store, to the gym, beauty salons etc. With the exception of parts of the west coast. People just jump on you with ‘we are in a pandemic you know.’ Aye, we are, but I’m in a level 2 area so we have some freedoms - not many but better off than England - for now.

What is only and exception in the west coast?...
The majority of the central belt is in lockdown from 6pm tonight except Falkirk/edinburgh

Yanbu, it's annoying. In Australia they are living fairly normal lives. It also derails the conversation

Utterly pathetic. Sometimes I think that covid-related lockdowns have been the highlights of some people's entire lives. They obviously don't have meaningful social lives, don't enjoy doing much outside the home, don't understand that fresh air and exercise is healthy, etc. then I get off mumsnet and realise that real life isn't actually full of those people, thankfully.

Oh god yes it does my tits in.

@VerySadPandaBear

Yanbu, it's annoying. In Australia they are living fairly normal lives. It also derails the conversation

The number os threads started by Australians during UK awake hours has got to be tiny, f you're posting from a territory with only a small number of active members you really need to include that info in your OP

Does anyone read a thread that involves a restaurant and think, oh my yeah, that's OK they probably live in oz

Everyone may not be in the UK, but assuming England is "the UK" is a tad myopic.

Signed,
NI, Scotland and Wales.

Does anyone read a thread that involves a restaurant and think, oh my yeah, that's OK they probably live in oz

Perhaps not specifically Oz, but I would assume they lived somewhere that wasn't England.

What gets me is that if someone is posting about going to a restaurant then isn't it bloody obvious that they're either not in England or referring to a time when they were open (which was only a couple of weeks ago!)

People are the worst.

YANBU

Recently I've seen the equivalent of

" I went to the shop to buy a skirt when suddenly aliens landed picked me up , transported me to their home planet qwrgh and gave me dinner and took me home in time for strictly "

And the first response is

" How are you buying the non essential skirt in lockdown ?"

Seriously though I've seen it with people with a really quite serious issue and it's the first thing that some challenge....it actually is quite worrying to laser like obsession with lockdown rules above anything else.

YES!!!! And the embarrassing thing is (for the sleuthers that is) that in their eagerness to be the genius that spots the apparent covid inaccuracies they always manage to miss a key sentence that says "A few weeks ago" or "a party (just for our family bubble" or similar. And that's in addition to the arrogant assumption that every poster on MN is in England and therefore in lockdown.

But reading comprehension is pretty low on mn in general....there are always people who are so keen to jump in they can't even be arsed to properly read the opening paragraph let alone any of OPs subsequent updates.which puzzles me because I'm sure I spent nearly every single sodding English lesson between 1995-2006 "reading the text and then answering the questions"!!!

@borntohula

Utterly pathetic. Sometimes I think that covid-related lockdowns have been the highlights of some people's entire lives. They obviously don't have meaningful social lives, don't enjoy doing much outside the home, don't understand that fresh air and exercise is healthy, etc. then I get off mumsnet and realise that real life isn't actually full of those people, thankfully.

This with massive fucking bells on

YANBU! I’ve just been reading a thread from a poster in Australia and she mentioned going out for drinks and a meal and the replies were just insane. And even once she clarified she lives elsewhere, it was “well you still shouldn’t be going out for drinks anyway we’re in the middle of a pandemic”. Oh, fuck off.

Yanbu
People forget that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have different rules.

It just ruins a post it seems we can’t have any posts without someone saying oh but Covid

@LondonStone

Yeah I was reading the one about a senior professional who had dinner with her male colleague. The latters DW had a problem with this. It could have been an interesting thread, instead it was full of "why are you having dinners when we are in lockdown" until finally she was like...I'm in NZ.

@GoldfishParade Yes! Sorry, I couldn’t remember if the poster said Australia or New Zealand but the replies were something else!

“Irrelevant. You most certainly shouldn’t be having “boozy nights out” and “big dinners” during a pandemic.”

So tedious, I've had to temporarily leave a few FB pages I follow (mainly hllwalking/Munro related) due to every thread being 'policed' by someone asking where the poster travelled from.

Pathetic.

@satnighttakeaway but that's exactly my point. Unless the thread is covid related, it's got nothing to do with the conversation. It just derails it.

Agreed, it's so boring. Hate when people derail threads like that.

Agree with you. Same responses as well, about how selfish you are and that you're killing granny. There's a pandemic don't you know

@Neron

Agree with you. Same responses as well, about how selfish you are and that you're killing granny. There's a pandemic don't you know

I think you'll find the phrase is 'stupid and selfish.' There ought to be some sort of Coronavirus bingo...